Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Deployment Environments team. As part of GitLab's Platform Enablement organization, you will contribute to making GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across various environments.

The team focuses on Cloud Native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments. Your responsibilities will include helping shape GitLab's next-generation self-managed deployment guidance and improving production-like ephemeral environments.

Key areas of focus:

• Evolving GitLab's self-managed deployment guidance into a clear Cloud Native model
• Improving production-like ephemeral environments for earlier, higher-confidence validation
• Supporting a platform model where services declare requirements, operators satisfy them, and shared artifacts work across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed

Responsibilities:

• Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments
• Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance, including component requirements, architecture patterns, topology guidance, and scaling principles
• Improve ephemeral environments that bring validation closer to production reality
• Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts and environment contracts consistent from development through production
• Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance

Requirements:

• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems, distributed applications, or platform engineering
• Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations
• Comfort working at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure
• Good systems thinking around service dependencies, deployment patterns, and infrastructure abstraction
• A collaborative, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities

GitLab offers various benefits, including support for health, finances, and well-being, flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, and employee stock purchase plans.